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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that cooks, especially a utensil or an appliance for cooking.
  • noun A person employed to operate cooking apparatuses in the commercial preparation of food and drink.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Specifically, areceptacle in which food may be cooked by steam.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an implement for cooking.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK, except in compounds An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a utensil for cooking

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Examples

  • When I do get my act together – especially in the winter – my slow cooker is my ultimate yummy weapon!

    Dinner Time BLUES « Bored Mommy 2009

  • The electric rice cooker is making brown rice all day long.

    Jay Weston: Downtown Burbank Is Now a Vibrant Scene -- Moore's Deli Is There Jay Weston 2010

  • I'd agree the pressure cooker is a time saver and is certainly efficient but I also think the product is very well built which is a key component in determining a products sustainability.

    16 posts from October 2008 2008

  • The reason I chose to use a pressure cooker is to save time and fuel and because this method needs no supervision - fill up the pressure cooker, turn on the stove and go find something else to do.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Nupur 2008

  • I use a Weber smoky mountain cooker with the "minion method" for starting the charcoal, and I use lump charcoal.

    My oven-baked brisket | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • I'd agree the pressure cooker is a time saver and is certainly efficient but I also think the product is very well built which is a key component in determining a products sustainability.

    Fagor Futuro Pressure Cooker 2008

  • I have to agree with Chow that this recipe not only takes a while to cook (my slow cooker is big and tends to burn small amounts of food when used on HI, so I cooked it on LOW for 3 hours) but also needs time to sit and marinate afterwards.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008

  • While the cooker is working extract the tamarind pulp and keep ready.

    Avare Hidikbele Sambar Anjali 2007

  • If pressure cooker is used like I do then without the weight.

    Kothimbir Vadi Anjali 2007

  • If pressure cooker is used like I do then without the weight.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Anjali 2007

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  • Has just entered Australian vernacular as a term for rabid anti-vaxxer types currently filling out the 'convoy' protests in various places.

    Possibly because they are seem to subsist on an endless diet of the conspiracy theories they cook up.

    February 15, 2022

  • See https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cookers&src=typeahead_click

    February 15, 2022